10 April Saturday
Old Style — 28 MarchToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Saint John of Manglisi (+1751)›
Venerable Hilarion the New (+754)›- Venerable Stephen the Confessor (+815)›
Holy Martyrs Jonah, Barachisius and Others (+c. 310)›
Holy Martyr Boyan, Prince of Bulgaria (+830)›
The tone and the day's psalms
What is a tone?
A tone is not a psalm number. It is the mode in which that week's resurrection hymns are sung — the whole week's Vespers, Matins and Liturgy are set in one tone.
There are eight tones, and they change each week. The cycle opens with the first tone on Thomas Sunday after Pascha and returns to the first every eight weeks; Bright Week itself has no tone of its own. A new tone begins on Saturday evening, with the new church week.
The Psalter is divided into twenty kathismata and, by the usual rule, is read through once a week. Appointed for this day:
- At Matins · kathisma 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
This is the usual rule. In Great Lent the Psalter is read twice a week, and the kathismata are divided differently.
Word of the day
As soon as you feel pride taking hold of you because of the good works you have done, at once call to mind your sins, so as to calm your foolish arrogance. Do the same when you see your neighbour going astray: at once call to mind his virtues too.
— St Basil the Great · #
Icons of the day's saints — from our shop
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Icon: Icon of Christ — Sinai, 6th c. · Public domain